Book Club Chapter 5

SubuJaneNorman couldn’t bear to leave her lap top at home. Blonde glanced over her shoulder to see what she was doing. SubuJaneNorman was typing furiously to someone named Married4Affair…. I am wearing my size 10 boob tube and my size 8 spray on silver wet look leggings … she hit return. …. mmmm sexy ….. pinged back the reply from married4affair. Blonde gave her one of her looks and moved back to her group.

Claire and Born had found every piece of paper they could get their hands on and scribbled “Joker”.

“We’re out of paper” Born wailed to Blonde.

“I am out of wine” Claire wailed louder.

“Right get your Knickers off – we’ll write on those as well.” Blonde was always good at thinking out of the box.

All three of them ripped their knickers to shreds with their teeth and wrote “Joker” on those too.

Angeldust was stumped. She didn’t know who to put down, the choice was proving too difficult for her. She knew she had upset many men and left a trail of broken hearts in her wake. She felt truly ashamed every time she recalled how deflated thin ice looked on the day she finally met him and rejected him. Angeldust was sure she was the cause of Thin Ice’s bitterness. She couldn’t decide so, she went back to chewing on her pencil.

Phoenix and Rosepetal carrying a cauldron each started to collect the pieces of paper. Annette push the curtain filled up the one Rosepetal was carrying.

“You’re only supposed to put one piece of paper in” Rosepetal looked as pieces of paper overflowed from her black pot.

“I did that’s my piece of paper” Annette picked up a scrap of white paper from the floor and slapped it on the top. “Don’t start snipping at me Rosepetal otherwise I will tell everyone what I think and I don’t care who hears it because I am fed up with being told what I can or can’t say.”

Annette looked at Rosepetal with defiance …”Oh I can’t be bothered with this” Rosepetal sighed and gagged her.

Eventually all the names were collected and brought to the feet of the High Priestess. Maria-s realised there were more pieces of paper than there were witches and glanced at Annette who was making hand signals and swearing at everyone.

Eerily the room darkened as Maria-s started to chant …. “Bring us the face of the evil one oh forces that govern us”……. “Bring us the face of the evil one oh forces that govern us” …. all the witches joined in with the chant except Claire who had nipped out to Wine Rack for supplies.

All of a sudden smoke started to rise from the cauldrons – the chanting got faster and louder the two plumes of smoke joined at the ceiling. The witches banged their broomsticks in time to the chant.

All of sudden a face appeared – the witches of miffedwick had seen some things in their time but nothing compared to the ugliness of the man who was wearing Blonde’s knickers on his head. They had chosen their first victim well!! . ……… to be continued